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The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
Michael Tippett
Music
Time
The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.
Michael Tippett
Shakespeare
This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.
Michael Tippett
Music
My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.
Michael Tippett
Imagination
Society
Age
Tradition